Chinese Consumer
Remember the stories about the Japanese coming to America with such a strong Yen, (money, not desire), that they could just purchase whatever they wanted? Yeah, well I bought 3 dvds, (Y23 – $2.50), 2 audio cds, (Y16 – $1.75), a black leather jacket, (Y300 – $36), in a mini shopping frenzy yesterday.
Oh. Did I say Jed was a cool guy? That must have been before he asked me with a straight face in all seriosness if I was alive during the Cold War. Punk. He said he read about it but was too young as it ended to remember anything. He then went on to ask if I ever had to do the ‘hide under your desk fallout drills’. Punk.
We went to the pizza place with Scott and Dan last night. It was really right about what I expected. Think, um, weak school cafeteria pizza with odd things like corn on it. But not in the cool California Pizza Kitchen way.
Hope to meet with the big boss guy today and sort some things out. It turns out that once you are here you have to give a 15 minute presentation to the other
teachers, the Chinese-English teachers and the 3 people on the school staff and if it doesn’t go well you are gone. It is really less about the topic and more about the delivery but I should choose something that I will have confidence in. I feel pretty good having been speaking publicly for almost as long as I can remember I just better pick a comfortable topic. Your suggestions are welcome.
Using my new turbo laptop at the net café for the first time. Cool.
– O